"Let's act!"

Asteroid belt, more than 20 minutes later, Ota Hiroyoshi received an order from the earth, and the whole person couldn't help but take a breath, and then gave the order helplessly.

There are hundreds of people on board the Kaguya spaceship, and there are cosmic astroscientists in it, which is enough to easily calculate whether Kaguya can drag the asteroid back.

Obviously, Ota Hiroyoshi knows the answer, but 20 million tons of gold, such a huge fortune, is too important for Japan now, and the order from above is as he expected, and he gambled.

The Kaguya spacecraft's rocket propulsion system was re-ignited, but this time it was not fully powered, only two rockets spewed out long blazing white tail flames, which were very dazzling in this dark world.

The Kaguya spacecraft is close to an asteroid, an asteroid that is less than 200 meters in diameter, but it is very dense, with a mass of 120 million tons, because it contains 2 million tons of gold.

"Small spaceship dispatch!"

With a command, the hatch of the Kaguya spacecraft slowly opened, and two small spaceships took off from Kaguya and flew towards the asteroid, just like the Seiryu spacecraft mining asteroids, the Japanese also planned to use carbon fiber ropes to drag the asteroids.

The two small spacecraft did the job very smoothly, and the asteroid was firmly trapped by a web of carbon fiber.

At this time, the direction and speed of the spacecraft and the asteroid are the same, and they maintain a relatively stationary state with each other, and the asteroids in the asteroid belt also have their own orbits and autobiographies, just like the planets Earth, Mars, and Venus.

Soon, the carbon fiber rope that netted the asteroid was attached to the load-bearing keel of the Kaguya spacecraft, and everyone returned to their posts, dressed in spacesuits, and firmly attached to their chairs.

At the same time, a modified anti-gravity spacecraft took off from the Kaguya spacecraft and followed the Kaguya spacecraft several thousand kilometers away.

This is just in case, in the event of a major accident, this anti-gravity spacecraft can still bring everyone back to Earth without destroying the entire army.

"Team 1 is ready!"

"Team 2 is ready~"

In the control center of the Kaguya spaceship, Ota Hiroyoshi listened to the voices of the group reports, took a deep breath and ordered: "Start!" ”

"It's time to gamble on the fortunes of the country, I hope Amaterasu will bless us again!"

At the same time, in his heart, he prayed silently.

"Boom~"

The four heavy launch vehicles were suddenly fully powered, and the originally dark void around them suddenly became brighter, and at the same time, when the rockets ignited, there was a huge vibration, and a huge sound was transmitted through the steel connected to the spacecraft.

The speed of the Kaguya spacecraft began to increase, and the ropes connecting the Kaguya spacecraft to the asteroid began to slowly straighten, firmly connecting the two together.

Then on the Kaguya spaceship, everyone only felt that they rushed forward all of a sudden, as if telling the moving car to brake suddenly, and under the action of strong inertia, it seemed to throw everyone out, but fortunately, there was preparation from the beginning, and everyone was firmly fixed to the space chair, so there was no problem.

"Full power!"

It lasted for a few minutes without any signs of the asteroid's altered trajectory, and Ota knew that the force was too small to drag the asteroid.

"Boom~"

One after another, the remaining four rockets ignited one after another, and began to spit out blazing white flames, and the dark void became brighter.

The Kaguya spacecraft was at full power, and the eight launch vehicles generated terrifying heat, causing the temperature of the surrounding void to rise sharply.

The carbon fiber rope collapsed straight and straight, firmly connecting the Kaguya spacecraft and the asteroid, but the asteroid's trajectory still did not change in the slightest.

"Amaterasu God bless~"

"Drive the power to the limit."

"Onboard~"

Ota Hiroshi kept staring, and when he saw that the asteroid showed no signs of change, the whole person roared angrily.

The 8 launch vehicles on the Kaguya spacecraft are a little different from the launch vehicles used to launch satellites on Earth in the past, and in order to save fuel, these 8 launch vehicles did not burn to the maximum extent when they were started, so there were certain restrictions on power.

Because it is in space, there is no need to exert all the thrust at once, and fuel is very precious, especially for a place as far away as the asteroid belt.

"Onboard~"

With Ota's roar, the people on the entire Kaguya spaceship roared loudly one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Soon, the engineers completely lifted the restrictions on the rocket, allowing the power of 8 launch vehicles to be exerted to the extreme.

"Boom~"

An even more terrifying vibration and roar came, causing everyone on the spacecraft to immediately change their faces, although theoretically speaking, the Kaguya spacecraft's eight launch vehicles could drag an asteroid with a mass of 120 million tons if they were fully powered, but this was only a theory.

The composition of a huge spaceship is extremely complex, and if it goes wrong in any one place, it can be ruined and cause a fatal accident under extreme circumstances.

When Uncle Sam launched the space shuttle, it was only because the weather was cold and the temperature was too low at the time of launch, which caused a material on the launch rocket to be slightly deformed due to thermal expansion and contraction, and as a result, the rocket exploded, the space shuttle was directly blown up, and all 7 astronauts were killed.

It is known here alone that when using traditional rocket power technology, the error tolerance rate is too low, and any small mistake may ruin the failure of the launch, and the cost is extremely high.

It is the emergence of anti-gravity technology that has promoted the arrival of the interstellar space age.

The tail flames spit out by the 8 heavy carrier rockets continued to elongate in the void, becoming more blazing white and dazzling, and the surrounding void became brighter.

The asteroid trembled slightly, and its trajectory began to change slowly under the action of a powerful force.

"It's changed, it's changed~"

On the Kaguya spaceship, Saburo Nishizawa, who was always parked with all this, couldn't help but shout excitedly.

"Come on~"

Ota Hiroshi had a smile on his face, and at the same time he said silently in his heart.

Although the trajectory of the asteroid has changed, the magnitude of the change is too small to meet the predetermined requirements, and it must be continuously pushed until the predetermined trajectory is reached.

"The fuel is running out too fast, the fuel in the rocket is running out, we have to cease fire and refuel the rocket."

However, before Ota Hiroyoshi was happy, Saburo Nishizawa, who had been staring at the fuel, couldn't help but scream.

The 8 heavy launch vehicles are full of firepower, and the power is very strong, but the fuel consumed is also extremely terrifying, and in just ten minutes, the fuel in the rocket has been consumed.

"Turn off the fire, speed to refuel the rocket."

Ota Hiroyoshi was very helpless to order, there was no way, when the Kaguya spacecraft was originally designed, for safety reasons, it was not designed to burn while adding fuel.

Because the design is very unsafe, in the event of an accident, the entire Kaguya spacecraft is equivalent to a large powder keg, and any failure of any of the eight launch vehicles will blow up the Kaguya spacecraft.

Therefore, when the fuel of these 8 launch vehicles is burned out, the rocket must be turned off and refueled to it.

After more than an hour, the rocket refilled with fuel and began to spew long blazing white flames again, struggling to begin dragging the asteroid little by little, trying to change its trajectory.

Like last time, this time it successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid a little, but at the critical moment, the launch vehicle ran out of fuel again.

"Bump~"

"It's not going to work like this, we run out of fuel and we may not be able to change its trajectory to the intended effect."

"I had to give up!"

Ota Hiroshi had a new trajectory and data calculated by the scientists in his mind, which was too far from the set point, but the fuel on the spacecraft was almost at the limit.

If it continues to be consumed like this, the Kaguya spacecraft will not have enough fuel to fly back to Earth, and Ota Hiroshi is desperate, everything has been calculated, but in this small detail, the rocket burns too fast, especially when the power is fully opened.

There is no way to continuously exert power on the asteroid, and there is too much, too much waste in between, which eventually leads to the current situation.

It's very embarrassing, and it is possible to change the trajectory of the asteroid to the set trajectory if it goes on like this, but in that case, the fuel on the Kaguya spacecraft will run out, and there will be no room for some minor adjustments to be made later.

Similarly, even if you rely on inertia to return to the Earth, because there is no fuel, the spacecraft will not be able to slow down at all, and the Earth may have to pass by, the key is that after the asteroid is hauled to the Earth, it needs to be slowed down to reduce its speed enough to be captured by the Earth's gravity.

"No~ It's already at this time, you can't give up, how can you give up like this when you bet on the fortune of the country."

"If we can get back to Earth, they will definitely have a way to send us fuel!"

Saburo Nishizawa on the side had red eyes and said unwillingly.